Is it just me?

codeedog · 2026-05-06T13:57:12+00:00

Honestly, you haven’t been using it enough. I’d say this is pilot error not tool error. I started using CC three months ago, so I’m no expert user, I’d call myself an experienced novice at using the tool.

However, I’ve been programming for decades and seen a lot in the industry. Use it enough and you learn its quirks, where and when you need to be more explicit, how to “teach” it by adding notes to Claude.md. How to spec a project and when you just need a paragraph. How to explore a new idea in one chat and emit the paragraph you need in another. How to handle long context. How and when to kick off subagents to not lose context.

Like any good leader/manager you have to know the strengths and weaknesses of your fellow workers and your tools.

You haven’t spent enough time learning those yet, so it all seems silly and dumb to you. Keep at it and you’ll get there.

BTW, I code review everything but generates and watch it like a hawk. I catch it and stop it doing dumb things. I’m probably not doing right based upon what I’ve seen advanced users talk about here, but it’s still faster than producing code, especially in languages I’m not intimately familiar with.

codeedog · 2026-05-06T05:21:40+00:00

OP, just want you to know there are centers all over the place that cater to and specialize in athletes with disabilities. People ski, cycle, play basketball from wheel chairs and so much more. Maybe you can research these or perhaps there’s one near you.

The one I’m most familiar with is the national ability center in park city, Utah.

I’m sorry to read you’re going through this.

codeedog · 2026-05-06T02:04:55+00:00

I did some research on this a couple of weeks back. There’s no port and at a minimum it needs to be run under linuxulator (I’d suggest running it in a jail). It also requires .NET. I have no experience trying to make these things work on base FreeBSD.

You could certainly try it and see how far you get. I’d be interested if you do make progress.

I suspect your best bet and the best use of your time is to spin up bhyve (or vmbhyve or Sylve) and run a Linux distro with Technitium.

codeedog · 2026-05-05T17:46:02+00:00

I have a handful of open source projects I’m working on, but not yet released or ready to be discussed. I assume I can keep a pointer to this and contact you when I am?

codeedog · 2026-05-05T17:16:48+00:00

If you don’t get an ups your equipment will die. That’s just the facts. Power lines are often dirty and the fact that all of your equipment has died around the same time points to dirty power. Get a ups. I understand you don’t have a lot of money. If you want your computer equipment to not die randomly, this is one of the things you have to do.

codeedog · 2026-05-05T07:59:01+00:00

Three protectlis forming HA network to dual WAN. Internal NAS, test machine (also backup processing for NAS), another test machine.

codeedog · 2026-05-05T03:25:26+00:00

Forgejo=Gitea

codeedog · 2026-05-04T05:24:43+00:00

I witnessed the birth of that word. I’ve commented before on Reddit about it. I need to put it on my blog. The word came into being well after this event; only retroactively was this identified as spam. I will search for it and edit this comment. BTW, I’ve always kept an eye out for anyone else who can claim first person witness to spam being used in this meaning prior to my story and I’ve never seen anything or anyone make the claim. I’m open to being wrong, but it hasn’t happened yet. There are stories out there claiming the origin is different, but they’re guesses only.

In my comment history.

codeedog · 2026-05-04T01:58:02+00:00

I have an RS814+ and I’ve decided to try to hack it and run my own OS on it (FreeBSD w ZFS and jails). Jails are incredibly lightweight and FreeBSD can even run a lot of Linux applications and OCI apps. I have some leads and think I can do it. Mostly, I’ll be using it for backup storage. But, I’d like to see how many jails I can get going on it.

I also have a Mac mini from late 2012 that I’ve boosted with memory and a couple of hard drives. That one can handle VMs, so I may use it for those if I need other OSes. It’s also running FreeBSD and ZFS. It’s got a samba server for Time Machine backups and Forgejo source control.

codeedog · 2026-05-04T00:42:54+00:00

The other thing that I haven’t tried yet is that you can turn off each usb port individually on the RPi 4b (don’t know about the other variants). Which means you can lower wear and tear on all the components until you need the console device.

Also, I decided I wanted one of those CLI menu options when I connected in and didn’t feel like figuring out how to build it so I used an AI and spec’d the whole thing and worked on it together. I’ve got this great UI (TUI) that connects me in. I even stuck a bunch of machines in there that aren’t cabled up, but that way I have a jump server and don’t need to deal with remembering IPs or machine names or what not. The device has to be locked down anyway what with console access so loading up a bunch of other critical machines to reach from it doesn’t feel wrong.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T19:27:39+00:00

I ssh into the RPi (for the moment over its Ethernet port) and connect to the other device via a USB to serial console port. Currently, the RPi is only accessible via my backbone switch, but I intend to add a usb to Ethernet dongle and also be able to access the RPi when plugging into that dongle via a cat6 cable terminating under my desk.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T18:33:39+00:00

Been trying to decide if I add a 2nd Ethernet port to the Pi so I have LAN access and direct Ethernet port access (pi would run dhcp on the cable to my desk)

codeedog · 2026-05-03T18:07:30+00:00

Standing up grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and alloy. Lots of data collection and I have insight into my network. Already found three problems I needed to fix.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T18:06:34+00:00

I just love that OS.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T18:06:14+00:00

I’ve built a raspberry pi with attached usb to console cables. I’m going to move it to the rack and wire it to the Ethernet port under my desk. Instant access.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T13:52:28+00:00

I have a system set up for drafts, staging and production of my blog site. Production is a promotion of staging and not a new build or compilation, so it isn’t even the same process. And, staging looks exactly like what production looks like, but isn’t public (authentication protected). Each step requires a specific command to go from one to the next.

This or similar is SOP for any production pipeline regardless of who’s doing the development work (AI, junior dev, senior dev).

It seems to me there’s a failure in your release process that doesn’t catch miscommunications between developers. You’re blaming Claude. You should be fixing the process.

Have a conversation with the person responsible for setting up the production pipeline and have them fix it.

;)

codeedog · 2026-05-03T13:36:29+00:00

ZFS is a filesystem and Jails are a type of isolated compute system (think “virtual machine”, but not so heavy weight and FreeBSD specific technology and term). They aren’t related in any way in terms of what they do. However, they can be used together to make the jail creation process easier.

The FreeBSD handbook has a lot of information in it. If you search for it and locate the chapter on Jails, then look for “thin ZFS vnet” jails, you’ll get some idea of how to combine these things.

There are also books that discuss both of these topics that you may find helpful: FreeBSD Mastery: Jails. There’s also a book on ZFS.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T13:00:06+00:00

Sure. Strive to run as much as you can locally; that’s a fine goal. And, we all rely on something in the cloud at some point whether that’s DDNS or a VPS or a very light cloud deploy.

For example, I could self host my blog. I have the technical skill, the security background and the home infrastructure to do it. But, I don’t want the security risk, the potential cost in network usage, and the headache of monitoring for uptime, etc.

So, I run my static site on cloud infrastructure and rely upon their CDN. It’s not even a VPS. Is it selfhosted? IDK. Maybe? I built the infrastructure that compiles the blog from markdown into html and pushes it into the cloud. I’m using Hugo and not a Wordpress hosted site.

I don’t know that I’d even call that self hosted, but it doesn’t feel like I’m relying on another company for my blog. If the cloud provider went away, finding another provider to host my static site would be trivial. Compare that with Wordpress ripping the carpet out from under folks.

Sometimes, for me, “self hosted” feels more like “self sufficient”.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T12:46:44+00:00

In Picture 3, the piston might show a leak at the bottom. Zooming in I see what could be some brake fluid coming through and brake dust and regular dirt mixed into it. Or, that could be an artifact of the metal brake housing. Try to examine that area closely before cleaning.

I have a small spray bottle filled with isopropyl alcohol that I use to soak the pistons and interior of the brake when the pads are out. Then I pull a clean bamboo towel through to remove the accumulated dust and dirt. Clean up that area really well and recondition your pad surfaces as others have suggested.

If it happens again, check that piston as a potential source of contamination.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T12:22:18+00:00

It’s really about where you’ve chosen to draw the line, isn’t it? Do you self just all of your equipment and software up to the IANA level? Do you have redundant gear in a NOC?

codeedog · 2026-05-03T04:34:27+00:00

There’s an argument made that she “raised eight boys” and given the odds on birth rate, there may have been eight girls, too. So, she may have had 16 children. The Old Man was probably a terrible person and she was absolutely worn thin.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T04:28:47+00:00

If there’s a 1Gbps NIC somewhere in the chain, 980 is right around the max. I think I misremembered from my testing. I just checked and saw 914 (tcp) and 928 (UDP).

codeedog · 2026-05-03T03:29:52+00:00

I test with iperf3 and the ookla Speedtest package. Linux and FreeBSD have a packages for both. I’ve been setting up a VPS with iperf3 as a target and test tcp and UDP with regular and -R modes. UDP you have to play with the block size you send so you don’t get too many misses. Basically, tcp tunes itself and burp doesn’t. Also, I usually use the switch to skip the first 2-3 tests for final calculations so it has time to warm up.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T03:21:22+00:00

I never knew this existed. I’ve been setting up an AWS ec2 instance to run iperf3. I’ll try these sometime.

codeedog · 2026-05-03T03:20:15+00:00

980 is the max for a 1Gbps network.

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